As we wrap up 2022, my second full year of remote working, I managed to surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 55 books, an increase of one book over last year and my second consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge.  I surpassed last year’s total with a mere three days remaining in 2022.  I read (or listened) to 19,328 pages, by far my highest total of all time and only the third time I’ve passed 10,000.

Of those books, fifteen were non-fiction and, of the remaining 40 novels, only two were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in.  None of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer, with 44 e-books and three audiobooks.  I continued to take advantage of my library card, which helped me procure 37 of the books I consumed throughout the year.

A little more than half of the books I read this year were by authors I had read before. The 31 authors that I read for the first this year were:

Adam Nedeff	Kelsey McKinney	Simone St. James	Laura Dave
Jeff Warren	Carlye Adler	Matt Paxton	Jordan Michael Smith
Alyssa Milano	Alex Finlay	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Emily Ratajkowski
Samantha Downing	Dave Grohl	Mary Lynn Rajskub	Stephanie Perkins
Michael Schur	Joseph Henrich	V.E. Schwab	Brianna Madia
Jimmy Piersall	Richard Whittingham	Richard Osman	Colleen Hoover
Jenette McCurdy	Sally Rooney	Josh Malerman	Alice Sebold
Katie Mack	Penn Jillette	Elin Hilderbrand	Nita Prose

Alex Finlay, Simone St. James, Karin Slaughter, Megan Goldin, Jeffery Deaver, and Richard Osman were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2022.

16 of the books I read were released this year, while only two of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1953.

Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.

December – 6
November – 3
October – 4
September – 5
August – 4
July – 3
June – 3
May – 3
April – 5
March – 5
February – 9
January – 5